Shandong female entrepreneur Li Xueye was suspected to be wrongfully sentenced to three years by the judicial system of the Penglai District, Yantai City, Shandong Province on October 2013 due to a contractual dispute. She was also listed as a fugitive on the internet but had not been imprisoned. On July 8 this year, with only three months left until the completion of her sentence, the Penglai City Public Security Bureau sent her to a detention center and threatened to sentence her to another three years.
According to a friend of Li Xueye named Xu Tao, Li Xueye sent him a message around 1:12 pm on July 8, informing him that she had been taken into custody by the police. Later verification confirmed that Li Xueye was indeed sent to the Penglai detention center.
Xu Tao learned from informants that after Li Xueye was arrested, her family did not receive any official notifications from the police and were informed that she would be sentenced to another three years. Previously, Li Xueye had already been sentenced to three years but had not been imprisoned, and the reason for her recent arrest remains unclear.
Li Xueye was originally the legal representative of the Jiaxin Garment Co., Ltd. in Haiyang City, Shandong Province, and the company’s products were exported to Europe, America, Japan, and other countries.
In May 2015, a business dispute arose between Li Xueye and the other party of a business contract due to the latter’s failure to supply goods as agreed upon in the sales contract. Li Xueye had previously told a report that the Penglai police first detained her on the charge of “robbery.” Due to the lack of evidence for this charge, she was released on bail pending trial in 2017.
In 2021, Li Xueye was arrested again, but the Penglai police still failed to gather criminal evidence against her. Therefore, her status was changed to residential surveillance. On October 13, 2023, the Penglai District court sentenced her to three years for “provoking trouble.” Li Xueye said that before the verdict was announced, she discovered that her name was on the list of fugitives on the internet.
Interestingly, Li Xueye had not been imprisoned all this time. She once asked the presiding judge with her sentence in hand, “When will you detain me?” The judge replied, “You can go back.”
Li Xueye claimed that officials from the Shandong Public Security Bureau had told her that there was insufficient evidence in the case, but the procuratorate forced them to file a case.
Li Xueye had previously stated that the judicial system was capable of colluding to fabricate evidence and render unjust judgments, with someone behind the scenes orchestrating everything, and that the mastermind was Zhao Feng, the former director of the Yantai Public Security Bureau.
Xu Tao questioned, “In theory, Li Xueye is currently serving her sentence and has been re-arrested. If she is sentenced to another three years, it will be a total of six years. According to the legal procedures of the Communist Party, this is also illegal.”
Attorney Cheng Yuan from mainland China told the observer that according to the verdict, the three-year sentence should have been executed by placing Li Xueye in custody before the verdict was reached. The biggest problem in this case lies in the fact that not only was the guilty person not imprisoned immediately after the sentence, but also the execution of the punishment was chosen by the public security bureau, and it was not until over two years after the verdict that she was imprisoned, indicating that there were issues with the initial court ruling, and the judges were derelict in their duties.
The judgment document. (Provided by an informant)